Summary Is that possible for webapps deployed on linux + tomcat5.5 to use/see all /usr/share/java/ jars automatically? Details I'm packaging my java webapp for Ubuntu (yet the question is related to any linux-based distro) and going to make it depend on tomcat. I'm going to put context descriptor (an xml file) to /usr/share/tomcat5.5...
No matter what type of web application you are building, there is usually a generic template of features/modules that always need to be included. Note: These are high level modules, the details will vary per implementation. Here is my list, care to add to it? User management User Role/ Security Error Handling Localization Language Su...
We have a web app that allows users to upload documents, create their own documents, and so on. Uploaded files are stored on Amazon S3, created information is stored in a MySQL database. What I'm looking for is some sort of search engine, where I feed it all of our text documents, each with a unique ID, and it builds an index or whatever...
I am putting together a proposal for a large multinational company for our licenced solution. Problem is I've never put together something this big before and so I don't know what is acceptable. Ignoring hosting or support (or even the functionality of the app) for the moment and just concentrating the licence - do you think it's more u...
I would like to have information about the icons which are displayed alongside the site URLs on a web browser. Is this some browser specific feature? Where do we specify the icon source, ie, is it in some tag on the web page itself ? ...
I would like to know if there is some way to share a variable or an object between two or more Servlets, I mean some "standard" way. I suppose that this is not a good practice but is a easier way to build a prototype. I don't know if it depends on the technologies used, but I'll use Tomcat 5.5 Thanks. I want to share a Vector of obj...
Hi, I have no experience with web services. Historically I've built client-server systems using proprietary communication protocols (even they happen to be XML). I just spent a few hours looking over Axis2 and it sent a shudder down my spine. The learning curve of WS scares me, and seeing all that XML surround so little functionality ma...
We're looking to automate our deployment of Web Applications, particularly when going from local development to a remote server. Our current stack is LAMP remotely, MAMP locally, but I'm interested in general what people are using for this task regardless of their environment? ...
I have a problem where a Web Application needs to (after interaction from the user via Javascript) 1) open a Windows Forms Application 2) send a parameter to the app (e.g. an ID) Correspondingly, the Windows Forms Application should be able to 1) send parameters back to the Web Application (updating the URL is ok) 2) open th...
I am having my web application deployed on Tomcat5.5 and I use it in integration with eclipse 3.2.Each time I close the eclipse and restart it, I need to republish the application even when it hasn't been modified. Is there a way to avoid this or any step I am missing ? ...
I've been looking into OSGi recently and think it looks like a really good idea for modular Java apps. However, I was wondering how OSGi would work in a web application, where you don't just have code to worry about - also HTML, images, CSS, that sort of thing. At work we're building an application which has multiple 'tabs', each tab b...
How would I go about creating a web app login handler in C#? In Java I would use a JSP that posts the username and password to a servlet, which then delegates to a POJO - for the db lookup and validation. If validation fails the servlet forwards onto the login.jsp for another attempt, if successfull then forwards to the secure resour...
I love writing my own web-based applications, but don't want to succumb to the not invented here syndrome. So before I go write this myself, I'm looking for solutions that either do this, or perhaps frameworks (like Django or Joomla, etc.) that give me a starting point fairly close to what I need. My company produces software with a la...
Hi, I have heard mention that some desktop applications are pretty much just wrappers for websites now. I have even had the occasional problem that has been best solved this way in the past and I can see it being really useful for current applications development. However, one problem I always seemed to run into was that the Web Site ...
For various reasons a web application would be best suite a project that I am working on but I am worried about the user interface. There will be a lot of pick and choose options that could be handled by check lists, combo boxes, etc… and to a lesser extent their will be some free text fields. However, I am concerned about the usabilit...
I'm building a Lifestreaming app that will involve pulling down lots of feeds for lots of users, and performing data-mining, and machine learning algorithms on the results. GAE's load balanced and scalable hosting sounds like a good fit for a system that could eventually be moving around a LOT of data, but it's lack of cron jobs is a nui...
The official documentation seems to be light on explanations of 'how to understand the sproutcore way' eg, why things are done the way they are, how to intuit what to do from where you're at... ...
For now I'm looking into languages like Haskell and Erlang just for the fun of it, but if I were to take bets, what would you suggest be the language of choice for programming the future web and why? ...
What is your favorite web-based svn client? I'd like one that supports commits via the web. One tool per post please! Please include platform and notable features (e.g. read-write support). I'm referring to browser-based clients that users would go to like any other website--not accessing the repo via http. ...
What is the best way to survey and detect bad users behavior or attacks like deny of services or exploits on my web app ? I know server's statistics (like Awstats) are very useful for that kind of purpose, specially to see 3XX, 4XX and 5XX errors (here's an Awstats example page) which are often bots or bad intentioned users that try wel...